THOMSON released an mp3PRO plugin for XMMS, back in 2005!. Then again, why transcode? The frequency information is there, why re-encode it in another format?Īll I want is to be able to listen to my files using a native Linux solution. Does it run Winamp, with its mp3PRO plugin?ĭo I have to Cick/Click/Click for all the music files I have? Hundreds of them.? Option 1: Wine WINE is a great piece of software. So the quality of the sound is rather flat, similar to that of a radio station. To hear the rest, you need an mp3PRO-aware decoder. You can listen to them with any MP3 decoder - but you are only listening to the first 22KHz of the spectrum. Well, mp3PRO files are in fact valid MP3 files. I am also a somewhat-adept coder, so I started investigating. I contemplated re-coding all my CDs in Vorbis. So not only did my music collection suffer silence at the hands of a closed format, it was also sounding inferior. To add insult to injury, in the years that passed, not only had Ogg Vorbis emerged, it had also surpassed mp3PRO in terms of quality/bitrate.
now that I was using open-source OSes, how would I listen to my music? and after 10 years of working in silence, it dawned on me. I became an addict I learned to worship Stallman and Raymond, I coded in C and C++ and Perl and Python. And I installed Linux.Īnd, as expected, Linux (and the BSDs) shook my world.
In my tests I found out that it sounded pretty good, too, so I decided to go ahead and use mp3PROĪnd halved it, it did. I believed that even closed formats would stay forever.Īnd this format was promising to halve my MP3 files in half! It was a time long ago and Ogg Vorbis had not It claims to achieve transparency at lower bitrates than MP3, resulting in a file nearly half the size of standard MP3. Mp3PRO is an audio compression algorithm (or codec) that combines the MP3 audio format with spectral band replication compression methods.
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